Pvt. Clifford Wayne Fusselman

Parents: Clifford R. Fusselman & Dona V. Price-Fusselman

Siblings: 2 sisters, 1 brother

Nickname: "Jack"

Education: high school graduate

Hometown: Jefferson, Oklahoma

Occupation:

    - roustabout oil industry

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 19 March 1941 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Units:

    - 753rd Tank Battalion

        - assigned to battalion after basic training

    - 192nd Tank Battalion

        - volunteered to replace National Guardsman released from federal service 

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements:

    - Battle of Luzon 

        - 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942 

    - Battle of Bataan

        - 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

            - Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan
            - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing at Corregidor
                - Americans on Corregidor returned fire
            - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars
                - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men
                - 100 POWs packed into each car
                - POWs who died remained standing
            - Capas - dead fell to floor as living left boxcars
            - POWs walked last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell

POW Camps: 

    - Philippine Islands: 

        - Camp O'Donnell

            - unfinished Filipino training base
            - Japanese put camp into use as POW Camp
            - only one water spigot for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate 

        - Cabanatuan #1

        - Bilibid Prison

    - Formosa:

        - Inrin Temporary - two month stay

    - Japan: 

        - Sendai #3

        - Shinagawa Hospital

Hell Ships:

    - Hokusen Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 3 October 1944  

        - Arrived: Hong Kong - 11 October 1944

        - Sailed: Hong Kong

        - Arrived: Formosa - 11 November 1944

    - Enoshima Maru

       - Sailed: Formosa - 25 January 1945

       - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 30 January 1945

          - 564 POWs were on the ship 

  Died:

    - 28 March 1945 - pulmonary tuberculosis & pellagra

        - body cremated 

Memorial:

    - Tablets of the Missing - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands 

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